Production chronology1882–1883
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗2 years
← Delamare-Deboutteville
Delamare-Deboutteville / Model record
Delamare-DebouttevilleGas/Petroleum Experimental Tricycle
Production1882–1883
Recorded originFrance
ClassExperimental pioneer automobile
Power1.5 hp
Experimental predecessor built by Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville and Léon Malandin at the Mont-Grimont mill. FFVE places the original town-gas tricycle in 1882, with petroleum use reported after gas-supply difficulties in 1883. These were fuel-development stages of one test machine, not catalog models or evidence of a manufacturing company.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
One evolving experiment is documented; no production or customer deliveries.